forbade Gregor Mendel to study inheritance of coat color traits of mice, mouse genetics may have had its beginnings in 1866 instead of 1902. The bishop in Mendel’s district felt it was inappropriate for the monk to share his living quarters with critters that had sexual intercourse, and so Mendel was forced to turn his attention to making experimental crosses with garden pea. Fortunately for Mendel, the bishop was apparently unaware that plants also had sex”

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